Rosanna Smart Featured at Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture
Economist Rosanna Smart, a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, will be the featured speaker at the 2025 Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecturer. The lecture is sponsored annually by The National Academy of Sciences’ Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education’s Committee on Law and Justice.
Smart is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. Her research in applied microeconomics focuses on issues related to health behaviors, illicit markets, drug policy, and the determinants of gun violence. Through her research, she collaborates with experts from multiple fields and engages with policymakers to inform evidence-based policy decisions. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Kleiman lecture recognizes early career scholars in the public policy sphere and pays tribute to Mark Kleiman, a policy analyst, teacher and member of the Committee on Law and Justice.
Attendees can visit the lecture in-person or virtually. In-person attendance will be limited at the National Academy of Sciences Building at 2101 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, D.C.
